POLICE were called to Consell’s Mercat dels Encants on Monday after a stuffed lion’s head was put up for sale.
The seller did not have documentation to verify the object’s legal origin as they claimed they ‘found it in a bin’.
Despite this, the case will be investigated by Seprona (Nature Protection Service of the Spanish Civil Guard) agents and the stallholder risks a criminal record.
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Local police reminded citizens that the buying and selling of protected species could result in a crime against flora and fauna if the correct documentation is not supplied.